We saw countless planes flying in the sky. And sometimes, when you get caught, they appear as a tiny speck on our screens – nowhere near what we thought it would look like.
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But, now a A California-based astronaut who was actually trying to get the sun to see a plane pass in front of the sun caught orange-fire on this camera, creating a kind of kind of you who can’t stop walking.
This very moment was captured by Andrew McCarthy who captured this beautiful image with the help of a telescope containing hydrogen-alpha sunscreens. that particularly illuminates the chromosphere (cover of the solar atmosphere).
I was burning the sun in hydrogen-alpha light, so that as the plane passed you could see the waves scattering the light from the sun, while the plane would be invisible if it were not. he covers the disc. This video and image above can be found on my pattern in HD https://t.co/VUjYIQJy0b pic.twitter.com/nMP8I3AOuL
– Anndra McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) January 18, 2021
McCarthy was first trying to capture images of what was important to the Sun.. If you didn’t know, it’s the fiber-like curved structures that are often seen at the edges of sunsets. The reason hydrogen-alpha filters are needed to do this work is that it helps to filter out the light from the sun but leaves behind the red light that interesting hydrogen atoms emit. spread. This causes the chromosphere to fire colors and signals.
McCarthy said in a statement while sharing the video and image on Instagram, “When you take pictures as often as I do, happy accidents are likely to increase. As this plane interrupted my picture of our sun yesterday afternoon. Completely unplanned, but added something to the image that made it particularly beautiful. ”
He said, “Notice how the plane can only be seen when it covers the sun, but the angles are easily visible anyway. This is due to the streams scattering the sun’s alpha hydrogen light, to which my range is sensitive. It creates the disappearance of a missing plane !. ”
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Just in case you think you’ve heard the name Andrew McCarthy before, you’re not wrong. A few months ago, he caught one of the sharpest images of the Moon.
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